While Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra sing Lewis Redner’s melody, most English carol books use this: O Little Town of Bethlehem (Vaughan Williams). Picture: IMSLP/Vaughan Williams This version takes ...

“O Little Town of Bethlehem” is a beloved Christmas ... sing “Forest Green,” a folk tune that the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams collected as “The Ploughboy’s Dream,” then adapted ...

"O how happy the angels will be." Brooks's carol was an instant success in the USA, but only came to England when Vaughan Williams introduced it in 1906, arranging it to the traditional tune ...

O Bethlehem of Ephrathah, who are one of the little clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to rule Israel" (Micah 5:2). The town of Bethlehem was known to the people.

“O Little Town of Bethlehem” was written in 1867 by Phillips Brooks, an Episcopal pastor from Philadelphia. He had been in Israel two years earlier and had celebrated Christmas in Bethlehe ...

The inspiration for ''O Little Town of Bethlehem" probably came to Brooks on Christmas Eve in 1865 in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, just a few feet from where Jesus was born. Brooks was in ...